Robert G. Vignola

Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 5, 1882
Day of Death: October 25, 1953 (71 years old)
Place of Birth: Trivignano, Veneto, Italy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert G. Vignola (born Rocco Giuseppe Vignola, August 5, 1882 – October 25, 1953) was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director in American cinema. One of the silent screen's most prolific directors, he made a handful of sound films in the early years of talkies but his career essentially ended in the silent era. Born at Trivigno, in the province of Potenza, Vignola left Italy with his family at the age of 3 and was raised in upstate New York. He made his acting debut at 19 performing in "Romeo and Juliet", with Eleanor Robson Belmont and Kyrle Bellew. He began his film career as an actor in 1906 with the short film The Black Hand, directed by Wallace McCutcheon and produced by Biograph Company, generally considered the film that launched the mafia genre. In 1907 he joined Kalem Studios, for which he made numerous movies. One of Vignola's most notable film roles was as Judas Iscariot in From the Manger to the Cross (1912), directed by Sidney Olcott, one of the most successful films of the period. Vignola directed 87 films, most notably The Vampire (1913), sometimes cited as the first "vamp" movie, and Seventeen (1916), where Rudolph Valentino did an uncredited cameo. He had a long association directing the early movies of Pauline Frederick such as Audrey (1916) and Double Crossed (1917). His biggest success was the big-budget epic When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), starring Marion Davies, which achieved critical and commercial acclaim. Other films include Déclassée (1925), with the uncredited appearance of the then unknown Clark Gable; Broken Dreams (1933), which received a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival, and The Scarlet Letter (1934), the last film of Colleen Moore. Vignola died in Hollywood, California in 1953. He lived in a mansion at Whitley Heights owned by William Randolph Hearst. Hearst's mistress Marion Davies was allowed to stay without him at Vignola's mansion, worried that she was having affairs and considering Vignola a trusted companion for her as he was homosexual. He was buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.
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Actor Chick Fenway - a Thief
Honor Thy Father

Actor Railroad Engineer (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Railroad Raiders of '62
Director
The Stolen Ruby

Director
The Scorpion's Sting
Director
A Sister's Burden
Director
Honor Thy Father

Director
The Destroyer

Director
The Crooked Path

Director
The Siren's Reign

Director
The Haunting Fear

Scenario Writer
Don Caesar de Bazan

Director
Don Caesar de Bazan

Director
The Maker of Dreams

Director
The Night Operator at Buxton
1914

Actor
The Show Girl's Glove
Director
The Shadow
Director
Her Husband's Friend

Director
The Cabaret Dancer
Director
Through the Flames

Director
The Show Girl's Glove
Director
The Storm at Sea

Director
The Devil's Dansant
Director
The Hand of Fate
Director
Into the Depths
Director
The Menace of Fate
Director
The False Guardian
Director
A Midnight Tragedy

Director
The Barefoot Boy
Director
Seed and the Harvest

Writer
The Barefoot Boy
Director
Her Bitter Lesson
Director
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
Director
The Hate That Withers

Director
The Man of Iron

Writer
The Vampire's Trail

Director
The Vampire's Trail
1913

Actor Undetermined Role
Shenandoah
Actor Tony
The Padrone's Plot

Actor Hal Martin - the Star Reporter
The War Correspondent

Actor
The Vampire
Actor Joe Mellon - the Brakeman
A Desperate Chance

Actor The Criminal
The Prosecuting Attorney

Actor Uncle Tom - the Colonel's Servant
The Message of the Palms
Actor Geoffrey Stern
A Sawmill Hazard
Actor Pablo Florenti - Pepita's Father
The Peril of the Dance Hall

Actor Hadjji - a Mohammedan Priest
The Scimitar of the Prophet

Actor Paola
The Alien

Actor Shamus O’Daly
The Wives of Jamestown
Actor Preston
Lady Peggy’s Escape

Director
Primitive Man

Director
The War Correspondent

Scenario Writer
The Vampire

Director
The Alien

Director
The Message of the Palms

Director
The Scimitar of the Prophet

Director
Man's Greed for Gold
Director
A Victim of Heredity

Director
The Lost Diamond
Director
The Hidden Witness

Director
A Stolen Identity
Director
The Bribe

Director
The Vampire
1912

Actor Ayub Kashif
An Arabian Tragedy
Actor Mahmoud Pasha
A Prisoner of the Harem

Actor Darby O'Drive
The Little Gluers

Actor Michael Dee
Ireland, the Oppressed
Actor Harvey Duff
The Shaughraun

Actor Judas
From the Manger to the Cross

Actor Judge Barnett - the Father
Captured by Bedouins

Actor The Flirtatious Malmoud Bey
Tragedy of the Desert
Actor
The O'Neill